Leah's Year in Puggles

This year on Wed. nights I've been taking Leah to our former church for their AWANA program. When we attended, Brett & I both worked with the older kids in AWANAs, and it is a great program, where the kids memorize tons of Scripture and learn a lot from the Bible! This church is one of the few in the area that offers a 2-year-old program called Puggles. They didn't do much Scripture memory, but focused more on concepts, like "God loves me," "God made the world," etc. She loved going every week (and I know she will miss it even though she really doesn't yet understand it's over), could name several of her friends in her class, and could even sing the Puggles song they learned.

The end-of-the-year Awards Ceremony was this past Sunday. Unfortunately, Leah was standing/ sitting behind a teacher the whole time and I could not get a good shot of her, but here's what all the Puggles looked like on stage (as you can see, it's a BIG program-- she was on a waiting list the first few weeks and finally got in around November).

They each got a cute little Certificate of Participation after they sang their song, and then they left to come sit with us. Leah was sooo upset that it was not a "usual" Puggles night, that she didn't get to go be with her friends anymore, so we had to take her out of the service and didn't really get to see any of the rest. She paused long enough for me to get one good shot of her.



And then, to make everything all better, we let her play on the playground a few minutes before we left. It was the only thing that could make her happy.




I will really miss the AWANA program at this church next year, but we will probably be doing our own at Newton Grove-- it won't be nearly as big, but I know we can do it well, and either way, Leah will have the opportunity to learn Scripture and be taught the truth from a very young age!